Internet Searches Up 55% Over Last Year

Nielson//Netratings reports that the total number of searches in the U.S. conducted across approximately 60 search engines grew 55 percent year-over-year to nearly 5.1 billion searches in December 2005. According to their study Google represented nearly 50% of the searches with Yahoo and MSN coming in a distant second and third.

Google is continuing to show increasing marketing dominance with a 5.7% increase of the total searches.